Hi, can I talk to the product manager of Outlook? Thanks, I'll hold.
Hello? Hi, I think it would be spiffy if you would consider open-sourcing Outlook. No, the whole shebang, not just the client. Yeah, server side components and everything.
I think it would prolong the life of the product since it would allow it to exist beyond your commitment to it. And you know, as the saying goes, more eyes lead to shallower bugs.
So what I'm proposing is that you open up the source and give it away for free. Then you could...
If this is an actual erosion of the ionosphere, we may be looking at a serious problem. Whereas a hole in the ozone only amounts to a net increase of UV radiation (not that that is any good for humans), a thinner ionosphere means more solar wind removing our planet's atmosphere. Enough erosion and we'll be more barren than Mother Theresa at a Gay Pride festival.
Where would all you music sharers be if the RIAA responds with a valid billing address? It is just a matter of money before those ISPs start cooperating.
"I recognize a person 69cm away" "I recognize a wooden chair"
Right. Using sonar, the robot is able to determine the composition of the chair.
Given that the robot's speech patterns are not broken at all, and that it speaks in complete sentences, it seems more likely that this is a blinkenlites contraption with a very human person controlling it the whole time.
Finding table salt would be a huge step in our understanding of the universe. Not only would finding an actual table be indicative of intelligent life, but finding the salt in those little glass bottles would be frankly amazing.
We try to think about life as it may exist outside of our planet and solar system, but we always run into the problem of defining the term life. Because of our limited understanding, we search for pockets of water, which ought to at least provide a certain frame of reference close to our own in which we could find something that resembles life as we know it.
But we may also be overlooking life that we just don't understand and haven't the means to detect yet. Life as a system of planets, taking millenia to process a single thought. Life as rapidly integrating and disintegrating iron meshes on the surface of stars, communicating electrically and going through thousands of generations in seconds.
Finding water at these distances isn't so much the search for alternate worlds to habitate when we lose our Earth, it is much more a search for life similar to ours. But perhaps, I wonder, we are missing a whole range of other life in the universe due to our lack of capacity to imagine other types of life.
If you are involved in the development of software then you will be on the treadmill. The only way out is to either strike out on your own or to give up on the industry altogether.
Personally, I wouldn't do it. But I can see how leaving the industry completely is attractive for some. Just be prepared for the paycut.
But then again, money isn't everything, and if you can improve your quality of life, even with a paycut, then more power to you.
Now let's say that you need to double the size of the input keeping the execution time constant....for the second O(N^2) you'll need a 10X times faster machine.
4x, actually, but I think we all get what you're saying.
Basically, the angle of the dangle is geometrically proportionate to the motion of the ocean.
Sure, right now it may be more expensive to hire better developers.
But just wait a couple more months when unemployment starts hitting double digits. You'll be able to pick up very good, experienced developers for half, maybe a third of their current salaries.
Sure, invest in some HW now. That stuff will always be handy. But don't just go off and assume that developers will be expensive forever.
Scroll to the top and take a look at the biggest advertisers on the site.
Two that came up for me (on subsequent page refreshes) were for Scientology's main website, and another for Tom Cruise's website.
I thought it might just be a random fluke ad placement, but this seems like a very deliberate ad campaign.
Now, as to whether it makes you want to go get your clambake on, that's a different story. However, it would be hard to deny that NYCL is at the very least providing support to them by giving them prime advertising space on his site.
I honestly don't give a rats ass what the RIAA is doing to people who "share" music online. That's between them.
What I am very concerned about is that you are very clearly using the recordingindustryvspeople website to attract people to Scientology.
This same tactic of using a very easily tarred target is used by Scientology to recruit members in other areas. The most famous of these is Narconon which is a supposed anti-drug support group which is simply a front for Scientology.
I will not go into why I think Scientology should not be embraced here on Slashdot. I will simply leave the question hanging out there whether we ought to be listening to NYCL when he so clearly aligns himself with the religion.
It is certainly a fine concept to want a fully transparent government. We (at least those of us here at Slashdot) demand the same of our operating system. And likewise, we try to argue that "security through obscurity" is a useless endeavor.
However, the security of systems relies at some point on the obscurity of certain pieces of data. Whether it be a user password or a map of a network topology, the information itself has no real reason to be made public just for the sake of openness, one could argue.
Even considering that the system may have been used inappropriately, is the crime worth the possible destruction of the entire network at the hands of hackers? Shouldn't there be a great deal of discretion when risking opening up of confidential information that could have a severe detrimental impact on society as a whole?
Funny how all the computers seem to be working properly when the prices are going down, but not working half the time when prices need to go back up.
I guess it's like how gas pumps will correctly increase the price of gas when the price per barrel of oil goes up, but are buggy and won't reduce the price later when the costs come back down.
This seems to indicate that they were considering the use of pneumatic tubes over long distances. The technology simply wouldn't have been feasible, though.
First, you need to consider how much suction would be necessary just to move one packet over more than a few dozen yards. You'd have to set up repeaters at evenly-spaced points throughout the tube network just to keep up the necessary pressure.
With those repeaters in place, you'd still need someone on each end to receive the packet then route it to the next appropriate tube for further transmission.
You could never send anything valuable since any router could remove items as they saw fit. Not only that, but as the recipient, you couldn't know with certainty that the packet was unopened on the way to you.
That's not even considering the possibility of badly-routed packets which end up bouncing between wrong endpoints until they finally get routed to the correct destination. A packet that reaches an endpoint without a router to continue the sequence is likely to be lost and dropped. Without error detection, it is possible that you could never see your lost packet again.
What they should use is a big truck. Not a series of tubes.
That's not true. Not only can I call you an idiot in this post and gain great satisfaction from it, but I could theoretically write a bot to reply to all your posts with the same message. Not only would my satisfaction increased considerably, but the necessary effort to feed my satisfaction would drop to a marginal amount of zero per post.
The internet provides a seemingly infinite amount of pleasure!
I have a little light on my dashboard that is labeled "Check Engine". Ostensibly it is supposed to turn on when an excess of O2 is detected in the car's emissions. However, it also seems to turn on just about every 20K miles or so. It costs $400 to turn off.
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Hi, can I talk to the product manager of Outlook? Thanks, I'll hold.
Hello? Hi, I think it would be spiffy if you would consider open-sourcing Outlook. No, the whole shebang, not just the client. Yeah, server side components and everything.
I think it would prolong the life of the product since it would allow it to exist beyond your commitment to it. And you know, as the saying goes, more eyes lead to shallower bugs.
So what I'm proposing is that you open up the source and give it away for free. Then you could...
Hello? Hello?
Look, if you want to make car analogies, then just register the account already.
If this is an actual erosion of the ionosphere, we may be looking at a serious problem. Whereas a hole in the ozone only amounts to a net increase of UV radiation (not that that is any good for humans), a thinner ionosphere means more solar wind removing our planet's atmosphere. Enough erosion and we'll be more barren than Mother Theresa at a Gay Pride festival.
"What's your billing address?"
That's not exactly an unequivocal rejection.
Where would all you music sharers be if the RIAA responds with a valid billing address? It is just a matter of money before those ISPs start cooperating.
"I recognize a person 69cm away"
"I recognize a wooden chair"
Right. Using sonar, the robot is able to determine the composition of the chair.
Given that the robot's speech patterns are not broken at all, and that it speaks in complete sentences, it seems more likely that this is a blinkenlites contraption with a very human person controlling it the whole time.
Finding table salt would be a huge step in our understanding of the universe. Not only would finding an actual table be indicative of intelligent life, but finding the salt in those little glass bottles would be frankly amazing.
We try to think about life as it may exist outside of our planet and solar system, but we always run into the problem of defining the term life. Because of our limited understanding, we search for pockets of water, which ought to at least provide a certain frame of reference close to our own in which we could find something that resembles life as we know it.
But we may also be overlooking life that we just don't understand and haven't the means to detect yet. Life as a system of planets, taking millenia to process a single thought. Life as rapidly integrating and disintegrating iron meshes on the surface of stars, communicating electrically and going through thousands of generations in seconds.
Finding water at these distances isn't so much the search for alternate worlds to habitate when we lose our Earth, it is much more a search for life similar to ours. But perhaps, I wonder, we are missing a whole range of other life in the universe due to our lack of capacity to imagine other types of life.
If you are involved in the development of software then you will be on the treadmill. The only way out is to either strike out on your own or to give up on the industry altogether.
Personally, I wouldn't do it. But I can see how leaving the industry completely is attractive for some. Just be prepared for the paycut.
But then again, money isn't everything, and if you can improve your quality of life, even with a paycut, then more power to you.
Now let's say that you need to double the size of the input keeping the execution time constant. ...for the second O(N^2) you'll need a 10X times faster machine.
4x, actually, but I think we all get what you're saying.
Basically, the angle of the dangle is geometrically proportionate to the motion of the ocean.
Sure, right now it may be more expensive to hire better developers.
But just wait a couple more months when unemployment starts hitting double digits. You'll be able to pick up very good, experienced developers for half, maybe a third of their current salaries.
Sure, invest in some HW now. That stuff will always be handy. But don't just go off and assume that developers will be expensive forever.
Scroll to the top and take a look at the biggest advertisers on the site.
Two that came up for me (on subsequent page refreshes) were for Scientology's main website, and another for Tom Cruise's website.
I thought it might just be a random fluke ad placement, but this seems like a very deliberate ad campaign.
Now, as to whether it makes you want to go get your clambake on, that's a different story. However, it would be hard to deny that NYCL is at the very least providing support to them by giving them prime advertising space on his site.
I honestly don't give a rats ass what the RIAA is doing to people who "share" music online. That's between them.
What I am very concerned about is that you are very clearly using the recordingindustryvspeople website to attract people to Scientology.
This same tactic of using a very easily tarred target is used by Scientology to recruit members in other areas. The most famous of these is Narconon which is a supposed anti-drug support group which is simply a front for Scientology.
I will not go into why I think Scientology should not be embraced here on Slashdot. I will simply leave the question hanging out there whether we ought to be listening to NYCL when he so clearly aligns himself with the religion.
It is certainly a fine concept to want a fully transparent government. We (at least those of us here at Slashdot) demand the same of our operating system. And likewise, we try to argue that "security through obscurity" is a useless endeavor.
However, the security of systems relies at some point on the obscurity of certain pieces of data. Whether it be a user password or a map of a network topology, the information itself has no real reason to be made public just for the sake of openness, one could argue.
Even considering that the system may have been used inappropriately, is the crime worth the possible destruction of the entire network at the hands of hackers? Shouldn't there be a great deal of discretion when risking opening up of confidential information that could have a severe detrimental impact on society as a whole?
Funny how all the computers seem to be working properly when the prices are going down, but not working half the time when prices need to go back up.
I guess it's like how gas pumps will correctly increase the price of gas when the price per barrel of oil goes up, but are buggy and won't reduce the price later when the costs come back down.
Racism is bad, but hating blue-skins is perfectly reasonable.
This type of non-linear genetic branching is also found in some areas of the Appalachians.
Maliki liki Maka you crazy genetic rebels!
On the contrary, I am quite well-versed in the teachings of the Buddha.
But you have to realize that old Shaka never even considered the possibility of unlimited free porn.
This seems to indicate that they were considering the use of pneumatic tubes over long distances. The technology simply wouldn't have been feasible, though.
First, you need to consider how much suction would be necessary just to move one packet over more than a few dozen yards. You'd have to set up repeaters at evenly-spaced points throughout the tube network just to keep up the necessary pressure.
With those repeaters in place, you'd still need someone on each end to receive the packet then route it to the next appropriate tube for further transmission.
You could never send anything valuable since any router could remove items as they saw fit. Not only that, but as the recipient, you couldn't know with certainty that the packet was unopened on the way to you.
That's not even considering the possibility of badly-routed packets which end up bouncing between wrong endpoints until they finally get routed to the correct destination. A packet that reaches an endpoint without a router to continue the sequence is likely to be lost and dropped. Without error detection, it is possible that you could never see your lost packet again.
What they should use is a big truck. Not a series of tubes.
Stop being glib.
All of life is suffering.
That's not true. Not only can I call you an idiot in this post and gain great satisfaction from it, but I could theoretically write a bot to reply to all your posts with the same message. Not only would my satisfaction increased considerably, but the necessary effort to feed my satisfaction would drop to a marginal amount of zero per post.
The internet provides a seemingly infinite amount of pleasure!
I mean, I was raped on the Internet. My Karma went from Excellent to Terrible due to one post.
But I'd hardly call it a crime. Travesty, maybe...
I have a little light on my dashboard that is labeled "Check Engine". Ostensibly it is supposed to turn on when an excess of O2 is detected in the car's emissions. However, it also seems to turn on just about every 20K miles or so. It costs $400 to turn off.
Is this "feature" by design? Or is it a bug?
That's like removing LINQ from C#. Maybe it removes unorthonality, but at the expense of programmer power.
Yer takin' my jerb!
No context. 75% of Slashbots don't get it. Lame.